The Old Custom House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. House. 4 related planning applications.
The Old Custom House
- WRENN ID
- second-threshold-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Custom House, 11, West Bay, Bridport, DT6 4EN
- OS grid reference
- SY 463 904
- Coordinates
- 50.7108, -2.76102
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Custom House is an 18th-century building located in West Bay. It is constructed from hammer-dressed stone, primarily roughcast, and features a pitched slate roof with coped gable ends. The building stands two storeys high with attics and has irregularly placed sash windows that include glazing bars. There are hipped dormers at both the front and back. Modern extensions have been added to the east and west sides. Originally, the east gable end had a stone mullioned window. The Old Custom House is part of a group that includes No 11, The Fountain, Messrs Norman Goods Warehouse, No 13 (Clarence House), the Methodist Church, the Bridport Arms Hotel, Ship Cottage, Gull House, The Dinghy, and Pier Terrace.
Local climate
The Old Custom House receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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